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Spin Off Feb 11 NOTTINGHAM SPORTS CAR CLUB February 2011 1 CLUB WEBSITE www.gosprinting.co.uk Don’t forget to visit the Club Web Site. Its full of useful information from Club events and dates to results, Championship positions, downloadable regs and membership forms and details. If you’ve got something that could be useful to other NSCC Club members, then why not advertise it on the Web site. For further details contact Cliff Mould on :- 0114 2864135 or email [email protected] SPIN OFF ARTICLES Breaking news, adverts, for sale items, letters, views and race & event write ups should be sent to the Editor. Copy date for the next Spin Off:- 14th March 2010 And sent to : Paul Marvin. 4 Marriott Drive, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester LE8 0JX Tel : Mobile : 07715 353440 or Email : [email protected] 2 IN THIS ISSUE Chairmans Chatter 4 Editors Mutterings 5 Classic Corner incorporating Memorable moments 6 Club Website 6 Proposed 2011 NSCC Speed Championship Calendar 7 Invited Event dates for 2011 8 Major Motor Sport Event dates for 2011 9 Event Contacts List 10 Trailer FOR SALE 11 Membership for 2011 11 Curborough Lives Again! 12 Winter Paddock dates 13 Marshals Update 14 / 15 Bernard Hunter (in memory of) 15 Advert FOR SALE 16 Historic pages from “The Bulletin” Winter 1966 17 - 22 MSA News 23 - 26 Official & Committee contacts 27 Acknowledgement The artwork on the front cover is re-printed with the kind permission of the well known motorsport cartoonist Jim Bamber. Jim has very kindly allowed me to use his illustra- tions. For a sneek preview why not visit his web site www.jimbamber.co.uk 3 Chairman's Chatter A couple of apologies to start with. We were late getting the 2011 calendar onto the website as we had difficulties in uploading onto the re-designed site and, similarly, this has delayed the display of the 2010 winners – hopefully we will resolve these glitches shortly. We have also had a number of comments that the new website is rather dark, there is no forum for members to use, some of the information is out dated etc. etc. We are taking these comments on board and, hopefully, we will be bring- ing the operation 'in-house' so we can keep it up to date and quickly edit any- thing which is out date. You will see that this years calendar includes a number of different events on the same day giving you the option of picking your favourite or most conven- ient venue. We also have some new venues giving greater variety to the Championship and to make it a more attractive calendar - You will also note that we have reduced the Championship qualifying requirement to one NSCC organised event only to give everyone the best opportunity of featuring in the final results at the end of the season. Until a few years ago you had to complete 3 from 5 NSCC events and this did- n't produce any problems for anybody but for some reason in recent years competitors aren't able to commit to the Championship as fully as they used to hence the need to reduce the qualifying figure. Please remember that the main income for the Club is from it's own events, we get no financial benefit from other rounds in the Championship, so I would still ask you to enter as many of the NSCC events at Curborough, MIRA and Thoresby as you can. Thanks to great work by Steve Brown we have a significantly increased num- ber of clubs using our events as rounds of their championship this year which, hopefully, will give us the chance to increase our income even though we have dropped the loss making May event this year – who knows we may even be over subscribed and have the 'reserve lists' which used to be the norm. A couple of invitations to Mallory Park sprints in March & June came in too late to be considered for the Championship but look out for details in Spin Off.- as an invited club they are open to NSCC members – the sprinting will be dove- tailed into the race meetings being run on the same day, just make sure you are ready to go when they call you. Not a lot else this month, the Elise has survived the bad weather and started on the button the other week (thank goodness for trickle chargers) – just need to get some practice in if I'm going to avoid the wooden spoon at every event like last year. A couple of winter paddocks to go so hopefully will see you there Roger C [email protected] 4 Editors Mutterings A New Year dawns and I trust this edition of Spin Off finds you all in good spirits and relishing the impending start to the new motor sport season for 2011. Those of you with your pride and joy strewn across the garage floor might want to think about putting those pieces in to some semblance of order and getting a test day booked prior to the start of the season. The first event usually has a habit of sneaking up on you all too quickly. For those of you who are “ready to go”, might I suggest that you download a set of the Club Championship regulations and read them thoroughly. These should be available to download from the club website, if not keep checking as we have a couple of novices on website duty and it could all go horribly wrong! The lack of time spent in reading the criteria necessary to compete in any championship, not just NSCC, is all too evident when some drivers find out too late in the season that they have competed in insufficient events or the wrong events to qualify for a championship position. The Championship Regulations are published for the benefit of all NSCC Championship competitors. A lot of time is put into com- piling these and their accuracy is of paramount importance to the MSA, so please take the time to read them. I hope that as many of you as possible will endeavour to put pen to paper during the coming season to provide the membership with de- tails of your exploits on the track. Whether you are a seasoned com- petitor, or a complete novice, it matters not. It all makes for inter- esting reading. Remember, we all had to start somewhere and we all have had our moments during out initiation into motor sport. All my contact details are on the inside front cover of each issue so please send me what you can. Better still, why not us know what state your race car is in during the off-season as well! PM Classic Corner – December 2010 Incorporating Memorable Moments Five years ago the changes for the 2006 season included a new Classic Car class at our sprints for cars over 25 years old - and there would be an additional age and engine size related score sheet to help show some reasonable comparison. The Class results for the season were: 1st Stewart Scott Triumph TR4 – 2nd Paul Dowsett Alfa Romeo Sud – 3rd David Holden Alpine Renault A110. The year also saw 57 drivers sign on for the Malory Park 50 year classic parade organised by the club in recognition of our having ran the first car race meeting at the venue in 1956. For 2007 Stewart Scott repeated his victory, Andy Walker MGB V8 was 2nd and Nick Parrans-Smith MGB Roadster was 3rd. The club also ran a sec- ond parade at Mallory Park and the third and final one in the seeries in 2008 to mark the 60 year jubilee celebrations of the club. More classic snipetts in the next issue. Bruce Widdowson CLUB WEBSITE - www.gosprinting.co.uk By the time this edition of Spin Off drops on your door mat, the club website should have been updated with last years winners photos and a new tab created to provide the text for previous years winners. The 2011 Championship Regulations, Calendar, Membership and Championship forms are all available to download from the site now. Apologies for the delay in getting all the changes made to the site, this was a culmination of shortage of time and an incredible lack of knowledge as to how the website actually works. We have had had a kind offer of literally “free” help in keeping the website up to date and this offer will be considered at the next com- mittee meeting. PM 6 PROPOSED 2011 NSCC SPEED CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR Round Date Day Circuit Organising Club 1 17-Apr Sunday Harewood BARC (Yorks) 2 17-Apr Sunday 3 Sisters Longton & Dist’ MC 3 17-Apr Sunday Silverstone Sheff’ & Hallamshire 4 30-Apr Saturday Aintree Liverpool Motor Club 5 07-May Saturday Shelsley Walsh MAC 6 08-May Sunday Shelsley Walsh MAC 7 14-May Saturday MIRA MAC 8 04-Jun Saturday Pembrey BARC (Wales) 9 05-Jun Sunday Pembrey BARC (Wales) 10 11-Jun Saturday Anglesey Chester MC 11 12-Jun Sunday Anglesey Chester MC 12 19-Jun Sunday Curborough Westfield Sports CC 13 25-Jun Saturday Aintree Liverpool Motor Club 14 10-Jul Sunday Curborough (L) NSCC 15 16-Jul Saturday Llandow BARC (Wales) 16 13-Aug Saturday Mira NSCC 17 28-Aug Sunday Harewood BARC (Yorks) 18 03-Sep Saturday Aintree Liverpool Motor Club 19 10-Sep Saturday Loton Park Hagley & District LCC 20 11-Sep Sunday 3 Sisters Longton & District MC 21 17-Sep Saturday Thoresby Park NSCC 22 18-Sep Sunday Thoresby Park NSCC 7 INVITED EVENTS Events to which we have accepted an invitation, but do not form part of the NSCC Championship.
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